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RELIGIOUS CHARACTER AND OPINIONS OF THE LATE CAPTAIN PETER HEYWOOD, R.N.
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Irish Unitarian Christian Society . W . Porter . General Baptist Association . J . T . Eckersly . General Baptist Assembly . J . C . Means . London and Southern General Baptist Association . G . Duplock .
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service and of Blair ' s Sermons . He admired these sermons for their practical character , and a copy of them was always in his cabin for the use of his midshipmen , to whom he recommended their perusal . To the
latest period of his life he was fond of the study of the Bible , to which ™ he ^ devoted-himself- ^ Gi : iticall-y , ~ and ^ he ™ would shut himself up in a room for a long time , particularly on Sunday , to pursue this occupation . On these occasions , he secluded himself even
from his family , upon the principle , that religion is an affair between every man's conscience and his God ; and he rather exhorted his dearest associates in life to pursue a similar plan of studying the Bible for themselves , than endeavoured to influence their speculative belief .
* It wi 11 be interesting * to the reader to know that , with these habits and views , he was in religious sentiment strictly a Unitarian . Though he rarely made religion the topic of 'hi ^ 'c 6 nverlMi 6 irr "' fr ^ CB ^ s © »'' perhaps , he met with few who sympathized in his feelings on that most
interesting and important of all subjects ; and though he had a great objection to personal controversy and discussion , knowing how soon the cloud and storm of the temper intervene to darken the mild light of the understanding , he never
concealed his sentiments , nor hesitated , on proper occasions , to avow them . It is worthy of more serious observation that his views were Unitarian , because they were the result of his own reading and reflection , under circumstances in which no sectarian
or party feeling , no ties of worldly interest or family connexion , nor any of the ordinary influences of social life could operate to check the free exercises of his mind . In the
retirement of his cjabin , in . the solitude of the ocean , in the silence of night , he read and thought . Early and sad experience of life had given to all his reflections a serious cast ; and while it lessened his taste for the .
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Captain Hey wood , who died on the loth of February last , in his nftyeighth year , was a midshipman on board the Bounty , at the time of the memorable mutiny , for presumed
participation in which he was afterwards sentenced to death , but on account of his manifest innocence , pardoned arid restored to the naval service , in which he distinguished himself as an excellent officer . The following extract is from a Memoir just published by his pastor and friend * the Rev . E . Tagart , and reviewed in this month ' s ' Repository : '
4 It is evident from the letters of Captain Heywood , which have been given , and from the whole tenour of his conduct , that he was a truly religious man . A grateful and adoring sense of the perfections and government of the one living and true God pervaded his mind , and his piety was connected with an invincible integrity and moral purity , which the world had no power to wound or stain . Can such an union of
gentleness and firmness , of . disinterestedness and modesty , as was found in him , have any other foundation than religion ? * On board ship he always acted as his own chaplain , and he was accustomed every Sabbath-day to assemble the ship ' s company , and read to them portions of the church
Religious Character And Opinions Of The Late Captain Peter Heywood, R.N.
RELIGIOUS CHARACTER AND OPINIONS OF THE LATE CAPTAIN PETER HEYWOOD , R . N .
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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS . ™ Lancashire . Lydutb , near Holm firth ; P ; John Nayler ; morning from 25 to 30 , afternoon about 50 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1832, page 244, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1825/page/4/
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